Masonic Temple: Collapse of Civilisation Weekend

The Warning

Cinema explores the world we inhabit; it’s able to look at the world and highlight ills—past and present— and set up the various possibilities of our future. With The Warning we package these stories into one large narrative, starting with a voice from the past, following through unease, unrest and the inevitable resistance. Sadly this tale takes a dark turn where warnings were ignored and we end up in the seemingly inevitable dystopian future, where the struggles, though different, have continued headlong towards collapse.

The Warning weaves it’s way through Freemasonry’s historical connections to the crafts folk and guilds and their own grand aims of unification and fraternity, while being conspiratorially viewed as a secretive organisation for world domination. What could possibly go wrong? —Josh Saco, Masonic Temple programmer

THE LAWDredd
Dir: Pete Travis | USA | 2012 | 95 min
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO

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SESSION 2 | Ticket Price: £12.50 | BUY TICKETS
4.30pmTHE ENTERTAINMENTThe Running Man
Dir: Paul Michael Glaser | USA | 1987 | 101 minPresented by Science Fiction Theatre
A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show. Accompanied by a special talk: Dystopia Now: Are we living in the future that we feared? delivered by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London.

THE ENDThings to Come
Dir: William Cameron Menzies | USA | 1936 | 97 minPresented by Filmbar70
The story of a century: a decades-long World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.